While I was reading this story, I tried my best to understand the story deeply. I used two strategies a lot.
1. I stop from time to rime to think about what I am reading.
2. I go back and forth in the text to find out how ideas are related to other ideas.
These two strategies are very helpful to understand the story.
One of my weak point in reading is I sometime read really quickly and even I don't understand the story, I keep reading and at the end, I lost. So these 2 strategies gives me a time to re-read the story and try not to go forward until I understand the story.
I used these 2 strategies at paragraph 1,2,and 8. First two paragraphs are what I should read carefully because I don't have much information. At the 8th paragraph, the story seems to change the direction so I thought that it is very important.
I also used the dictionary once. I searched the word "rumour" at paragraph 9. Actually, there are many words rumour in before 9 paragraph but I didn't search. However, after I saw the word rumour a lot and predicted the word would be important later, I searched the word by my dictionary and in consequence, it was very helpful.
After I finished reading the story with using these strategies, I took my time to think about its theme.
People can't believe something new easily. Before you believe, you need to take your time and inspect it.
It sometime leads people to bad way or negative way when they believe something and are betrayed. We have to believe something after we check it ourselves.
In the story, if people ask or check the story from "Readers' Digest" and check the story with whom you heard, then it wouldn't make this big trouble.
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Your description of how you used the reading strategies helped me to understand better how you use them. You are also trying to use examples and that is very helpful too. You need to be more specific. You said that in the 8th paragraph the story seemed to change direction. What happened?
It is not clear from your discussion what you think is the theme and how you know this. I recommend you follow the suggested format in the guidelines you were given as it will guide your thinking.
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